A day of triumph and victory for Google as the giant company won over the copyright lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild. A lawsuit that has baffled Google for more than 11 years is finally closing its chapter.
A former post from BBC mentioned, "The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Google in its 11-year legal battle with an authors group and the Court said it would not hear an appeal from the Authors Guild, which claimed Google breached copyright laws by scanning books without permission."
The battle began in 2004 when Google utilized the books for its searchable database angering the Authors Guild in the year 2005 and that anger ended in court. Despite the rising complaints against Google's platform Google Books, the Supreme Court's judgement is the absolute ruling on the latter.
Moreover, Google's database of books lets people search through millions of titles and read passages and selected pages from them, while some of the books in the database are old titles that are no longer protected by copyright, millions are more recent publications, according to the same report.
Although Google celebrates the Supreme Court's decision, the Authors Guild and their dismay is publicly voiced out. To prove the latter, the Authors Guild said it was "disappointed" over the decision that the Supreme Court rendered as well as the denial of their appeals.
The organisation's president Roxana Robinson stated, "We believed then and we believe now that authors should be compensated when their work is copied for commercial purposes." On a different aspect, Google has always aimed for excellence and dominion as well as expanding their horizons such as the improvement of the platform Google Calendar, reports Jobs & Hire.
As for Google, a Google spokeswoman rebutted, "We are grateful that the court has agreed to uphold the decision of the Second Circuit which concluded that Google Books is transformative and consistent with copyright law."
